Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Plank

(A). Any one principle of a political platform. (See Platform.)

Plank

To walk the plank. To be about to die. Walking the plank was a mode of disposing of prisoners at sea, much in vogue among the South Sea pirates in the 17th century.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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